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Deleting old bookmarks on Delicious.com

August 18, 2009 by John Dilbeck
Filed under: Act On Your Dream!, Musings, Web Services 

For the last several days, I have been diligently working to update and rebuild all of my Act On Your Dream! website.

This is one of my favorite sites and I was dismayed to see how much I’ve neglected updating and adding new information to the site. That’s something I plan to remedy in the coming weeks.

This morning, I was editing the Delicious Tag Cloud page and noticed that there were tags for things I’m no longer interested in and others that I no longer promote.

It’s been awhile since I’ve really worked with Delicious.com (used to be del.icio.us) and I realized that I had several dozen bookmarks that I needed to delete and others that needed to be edited to remove tags that were no longer appropriate.

It was a fairly easy process and I was reminded why I like Delicious.com more than the other bookmarking sites.

Do you use bookmarking sites to share your bookmarks with others? When is the last time you took a look to see if you’re showing what you want to share, now?

It took maybe an hour to update over 200 bookmarks and to winnow them down to less than 200. They make it easy.

Act on your dream!

JD

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8 Comments on Deleting old bookmarks on Delicious.com

  1. Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach on Tue, 18th Aug 2009 5:51 am

    2. Lots of success on your rebuild! I can relate to updating things that went out of date – it can take quite a lot of effort. I always figure I can reset the landing pages to something else more up-to-date. I’ll have to look into your idea!
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  2. Mitch on Tue, 18th Aug 2009 9:51 am

    3. I use Delicious, but I don’t put every single article on there. Maybe half of my articles are there, and I don’t have a problem with that.
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  3. Ravi Kuwadia on Tue, 18th Aug 2009 9:51 pm

    4. My experience with bookmarking sites is only through automated bookmarking softwares.

    I have never used it the way you guys do. But I am considering using it to keep track of my favorite sites – not sure when I will do it though.
    Ravi Kuwadia´s last blog ..Why Yahoo Answers Failed? My ComLuv Profile

  4. Apparel UK on Wed, 19th Aug 2009 12:52 am

    5. Hey john making continues updates is very important for every sites and you are doing also very well to update the sites.

  5. John Dilbeck on Wed, 19th Aug 2009 12:48 pm

    6. Good morning, Barbara.

    I have a couple of domains that are used only for redirecting (mostly) affiliate links. When I got dropped by Amazon.com and a few others because I live in NC, the first thing I did was go through and change those redirects. Some I change to point to other similar products and services, but others were change to point to a blog post that told why I no longer recommended a particular company.

    I try to use these redirects as much as possible, especially on sites I don’t own and control, but sometimes forget.

    As far as updating my Act On Your Dream! site, I have lots more to do with that site. I have several hundred pages planned, but never had the time or energy to build them. Now that things in my life are settling down, that will become one of my top priorities over the coming months.

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  6. John Dilbeck on Wed, 19th Aug 2009 12:51 pm

    7. Good afternoon, Mitch.

    I agree. I don’t bookmark everything I write on Delicious, but I do bookmark things that I think may be of value to others. That’s the point of adding them to a public bookmarking site.

    I don’t know for sure, but I’m guesstimating that about 40% or more of the bookmarks I have on Delicious are links to things that other people wrote, and that percentage will go up now that I have the time and energy to do more.

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  7. John Dilbeck on Wed, 19th Aug 2009 12:53 pm

    8. Good morning, Ravi.

    The only two real advantages that a public bookmarking site has over privately bookmarking on your own computer are:

    1. You can easily share them with others.

    2. You can access them easily, even if you are away from your own computer.

    There may be others, but those are the two that come immediately to mind.

    If neither of them are important to you, then perhaps there’s no reason to use Delicious or its competitors.

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  8. John Dilbeck on Wed, 19th Aug 2009 12:56 pm

    9. Good afternoon, A. UK.

    I agree; making continuous updates is a very important part of the marketing process, especially when you depend upon blogs and websites as much as I, and many of us, do.

    I won’t go into all the reasons that I wasn’t able to do that for the last couple of years, but I’m happy to be past that period in my life and I’m looking forward to being much more creative in the future.

    In fact, I think that’s going to be the main topic in my next Act On Your Dream! newsletter. I’m going to try to write it and publish it today or tomorrow.

    Act on your dream!

    JD

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